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WhatsApp’s getting new features to banish boredom and avoid embarrassment
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(Image credit: WhatsApp)
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If you’ve ever posted a WhatsApp message you immediately regretted or found yourself stuck in a group you didn’t want to stay in, the latest WhatsApp features are just for you. The app is now rolling out longer undo times so you can recall that embarrassing message you accidentally sent to the wrong person, to avoid specific people and to quietly exit groups you no longer want to be part of.
The company made one of the announcements onTwitter, saying “now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.” It’s simple enough to use the new deletion option: tap and hold the item you want to delete, tap on Delete and then choose between Delete For Everyone or Delete For Me.
There’s a catch, though: everybody who received the message needs to be on the most up-to-date version of WhatsApp in order for the message to be fully deleted, and there’s no way of knowing if that’s the case. So it’s still better to think before you post than to post and panic.
Leave the party without anybody noticing
If you’ve ever snuck out of a party that had stopped being fun you’ll appreciate the online equivalent: before now, if you left a group WhatsApp would announce your departure to everybody in the group, which often means private messages wanting to know why you’re going. The app is now rolling out a new feature that will enable you to sneak away silently without alerting anyone. That one’s coming in the next few weeks.
One of the most interesting new features doesn’t have an ETA yet: according toThe Verge, WhatsApp is also working on a way to block people from taking screenshots of “view once” messages so you can be confident they can’t share sensitive messages or content with others. That feature’s still in testing, but WhatsApp promises to release it soon.
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